SUMMARY:

• Hands - On Information Technology Professional
• Design and Architect Physical and Virtual Environments with Cloud Backup
• I am an accomplished and dynamic IT leader with broad-based experience in IT infrastructure transformation and full-scope project and team management.
• Expert in designing and implementing Hybrid Cloud Solutions to deliver expected business outcomes applying servers, storage, middleware, runtime, OS, application platforms, cloud, virtualization,
• Converged and Hyperconverged Technologies, etc.. Deeply knowledgeable with VMware vSphere Infrastructure, Cisco Data Center infrastructure, and expertly versed in best practices across several IT disciplines, and Cisco UCSM design and implementation.
• Expert at upgrades, performing assessments, and planning order of events.
• I understand the customer's needs and can communicate with staff at all levels, bringing everything together for successful completion of all projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:

• VMware vSphere (4, 5, & 6), Infrastructure Architecture & Design, Implementation and Management
• Windows (Server 2003 & 2008R2, Server 2012)
• IT Operations and Support
• IT Infrastructure Architecture (Virtualization, Server, Network, Storage, Cloud)
• VMware vSphere (vCenter, ESXi)
• Cisco UCS (UCSM, Fabric Interconnects)
• Cisco NEXUS (1000v, 3K, 2K, 5K, 7k)
• EMC VNX (5400, 5600, 5800 VMAX)
• UCS C-Series and B-Series servers vBlock (100,200,300,700)
• FCOE, Fiber, MDS Switches, Zoning, Service Profiles
• Nutanix Cluster (Prism Pro, CALM, FLOW, FILES)
• Service Now - SNOW
• AWS Native Applications Architecting
• FedRAMP Controls and Compliance
• Hyper-converged Infrastructure (Symplivity, EMC VSPEX BLUE, Dell Nutanix)
• VMC on AWS
• VMware Cloud Suite Enterprise Edition (vRealize, vRealize Ops Mgr)
• VMware NSX (SDN)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Enterprise Infrastructure Architect, TTS Infrastructure Migration Manager

Responsibilities:

• Expert in designing and implementing solutions to deliver expected business outcomes applying servers, storage, middleware, runtime, OS, application platforms, cloud, virtualization, etc.
• Responsible for the design, development and implementation of the Infrastructure solutions including Network, Storage, Compute and Virtualization for multiple sites (Dallas, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and TarryTown).
• Created solutions with considerations around gaps and risks.
• Served as an advisor to our product development teams throughout their implementation
• Resized and scaled the architecture team to match the business objectives and growth targets.
• Championed efforts to standardize processes, technologies, and adopt IT best practices across all the devices in the infrastructure.
• I lead all the troubleshooting efforts for the Infrastructure issues and facilitated escalations affecting the critical systems.
• I maintained consistency across all the teams, the technologies and devices, and lead my technical team toward this end.
• I have very strong analytical and conceptual skills, I create original concepts/theories that are practical to resolving all problems, issues and concerns.
• I analyze the project needs and determine resources needed to meet the objectives and solve problems spanning multiple environments in the business area and involving new technologies for which there are no historical precedents.
• Highly refined task identification and estimating skills to cover all phases of infrastructure design implementation and operation.

Confidential

Migrations Infrastructure Manager

Responsibilities:

• Proven ability to build motivated, collaborative and productive cross functional teams.
• Managed a team of Engineers, Solutions Architects, SME’s in the Execution and Delivery of IT Strategic Initiatives and a Data Center Migration.
• Vendor Hosted environment to Azure Cloud Solution
• Legacy Hosted environment to hosted in a new data center
• Hardware refresh on VMware (3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, to 6.5)
• Hardware refresh on the physical servers
• Worked with my team to develop the solution for migrating 350 applications.
• This document provided all the information about the application in its current mode of operation and how it will look in its final mode of operation and a very detailed method for migrating the application.
• My team created and implemented the strategic implementation plan and upgrade paths for the migration of legacy core systems. Successfully completed the first of 4 migrations within project scope and budget.
• Datacenter Operations (backup management, load balancing, firewalls, network ports, system integrations)
• Proven expertise in: infrastructure compute, storage and network architecture design, infrastructure service design techniques and artifacts
• Skilled at platform capacity and performance planning virtualizing system designs using VMware tools
• Linux administration and configuration knowledge of and experience with COTS/FOSS product integration
• I Planned, acquired, and coordinated the installation of in-house and remote hardware and software across the organization’s network.

Confidential

Senior Lead Infrastructure Architect, Senior Virtualization Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead Architect/Engineer for Data Center Migrations. Architected complex Data Migrations - Setup Pre-Migration discovery efforts and Post-migration testing for the environment.
• Managed projects as Pre-Sales Architecture Team Lead for multiple customers (vBlock, Flexpod) and supported vArchitect with technical aptitude and solutions development.
• Created effective VMware vSphere Infrastructure, PSC / SSO, vCenter, Update Manager, ESXi, networking, and storage.
• Designed, implemented, and upgraded VMware vSphere infrastructure, supporting small to enterprise (large) sized environments.
• Developed VMWARE virtualization, UCS blades and EMC storage, Vblock management, LCS preparation, collaborating with customer for Vblock, vendor coordination, developing system images and templates.
• Built VMware lab and development environments from end-to-end (compute, network, and storage), improving systems.
• Created and edited automation scripts using PowerCLI, VMware CLI, and PowerShell, increasing speed.
• Designed and implemented Cisco Data Center Infrastructure in large environments (UCS Chassis, Fabric Interconnects, Nexus Switches, and MDS), B-Series blade system, and C-Series rack mount servers, improving network effectiveness.
• Deployed and thoroughly assessed 100+ VxBlocks / Vblocks to customer sites, VMware, vSphere and networking components, and completed RCM (code level) upgrades for VMware, Cisco Nexus Switches, and Cisco UCS platforms.

Confidential

Senior Lead Infrastructure Architect, Senior Virtualization Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead Infrastructure and Virtualization Architect for Transition and Transformation projects.
• I designed and created an Integrated Architectural Solutions Document for each project.
• Worked with Lenovo Servers, Cisco UCS series servers, VMware vSphere product Suite, Cisco Switching, and Confidential Storage Platforms.
• I worked across all relevant departments and stakeholders (Customers, Confidential Network, etc.), leadership, and subject matter experts, architecting infrastructure that aligns with organization's strategy, processes, and information technology assets.

Confidential

Senior Lead Infrastructure Architect, Senior Virtualization Architect

Responsibilities:

• Data Center Migration and Disaster recovery (VMware SRM) project
• Responsible for architecting and Implementing the migration of the previously outsourced IT environment to a present in-house co-location data center.
• Architected and designed the new environment with hyper-converged and converged technology.
• Implemented the frameworks for highly-scalable applications with Hyperconverged (Symplivity), architected and implemented the complete UCS design, MDS fiber switching (storage zoning), SSD, PURE, JBOD, protocols, NFS, and fiber configuration, achieving client satisfaction.

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Senior Lead Infrastructure Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead Architect/Engineer for Data Center Migrations. Architected complex Data Migrations - Setup Pre-Migration discovery efforts and Post-migration testing for the environment.
• Managed projects as Pre-Sales Architecture Team Lead for multiple customers (vBlock, Flexpod) and supported vArchitect with technical aptitude and solutions development.
• Created effective VMware vSphere Infrastructure, PSC / SSO, vCenter, Update Manager, ESXi, networking, and storage.
• Designed, implemented, and upgraded VMware vSphere infrastructure, supporting small to enterprise (large) sized environments.
• Developed VMWARE virtualization, UCS blades and EMC storage, Vblock management, LCS preparation, collaborating with customer for Vblock, vendor coordination, developing system images and templates.
• Built VMware lab and development environments from end-to-end (compute, network, storage), improving systems.
• Created and edited automation scripts using PowerCLI, VMware CLI, and PowerShell, increasing speed.
• Designed and implemented Cisco Data Center Infrastructure in large environments (UCS Chassis, Fabric Interconnects, Nexus Switches, MDS), B-Series blade system, and C-Series rack mount servers, improving network effectiveness.
• Deployed and thoroughly assessed 100+ VxBlocks / Vblocks to customer sites, VMware, vSphere and networking components, and completed RCM (code level) upgrades for VMware, Cisco Nexus Switches, and Cisco UCS platforms.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

VMWare Administrator / Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Architected VMware workstation, virtual desktop infrastructure, ThinApps (configuration, management, MSI), storage (SAN’s, NAS, LUN’s, NFS, VMFS), networking, fault tolerance, and V2V, P2V, HA, DRS, meeting all requirements.
• Managed VMware disaster recovery, backing up and restoring with VCB, and set-up test environment for SRM product, monitoring and stress testing to simulate failure and recovery.
• Oversaw EMC Clarion (AX4 / CX4) — LUN masking, setup fiber channel switching, and provisioned server storage and data, improving system security.
• Installed and removed PCs, mapping network drives, manual software installation, and providing expert hardware troubleshooting.
• Oversaw user and system password administration, group rights and permissions, OS and Application upgrade / releases, software installation, configuration, and troubleshooting (Norton, McAfee, Kaspersky), expertly supporting systems.
• Provided network support, installation, configuring, and connectivity troubleshooting for 802.1x TCP / IP, SSH, Telnet, NTP, FTP, TLS / SSL, HTTP, HTTPS, SFTP, PKI certificate, KERBEROS, NAS, RADIUS, DNS, DHCP, POP, SMTP, IP (IPv4, IPv6).

Confidential, Champaign, IL

Senior Application Support Analyst / Supervisor

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and managed Java-based applications and production environments for performance, reliability, and stability during daily operations, application code releases, systems software releases, security patch releases, and service pack releases. Directed applications, processes, job failures, and multi-department call escalations for critical production issues.
• Supervised and mentored team of 5 Production Support Analysts who were 1st response to all issues, maximizing production / application uptime and meeting Service Level Agreement (SLA) goals.
• Managed entire production environment, including personnel (distributing workload and managing shift schedules), applications and systems, and all departmental resources.
• Wrote shell scripts to monitor daemons and process activities, distributing alerts and emails based on predetermined production conditions.
• Conducted all incidents, failures, and ticketing system meetings daily, weekly, and monthly, providing expert solutions.
• Wrote “work-around” scripts for production issues that were not solved immediately by development team and SQL (Oracle 10g) embedded shell scripts to process records on database.
• Maintained perl and ksh scripts that monitored daily processing and supported Java based Weblogic servers, processes, mapping, and architecture.
• Directed on-call critical production outages, analyzing and providing corrective action for program issues, establishing orderly maintenance procedures for routine (daily, weekly, or monthly) application and system tasks.
• Resolved problems and troubleshooting expertise for real-time Unix production and systems issues during outages.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Production Support Supervisor / Environment Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed day-to-day operations of production environment and support team for 24x7 operation in data intense environment.
• Hired and trained new staff. Provided troubleshooting and resolution for real-time Unix production, systems, and application problems during outages and other production-related issues, consistently maintaining and supporting applications functionality through new releases.
• Worked closely with internal and external departments, providing technical assistance to programmers and DBAs, ensuring systems and applications aligned with standards and requirements.
• Set up logical and physical system architecture and application flow charts for production environment, implementing schedules based on issues and requirements.
• Analyzed and provided corrective action for issues, establishing orderly maintenance procedures for systems.
• Evaluated system capacity and availability, reporting results to staff, internal departments, and vendors.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Technical Support Lead Supervisor / Data Center Management

Responsibilities:

• Developed and managed processes, procedures, and resource allocation required for effective IT operations, providing resolution response, moves, adds, and changes.
• Audited information security activities, securing all systems.
• Worked with Tier II and Tier III personnel, effectively managing cross-departmental activities, acceptances and escalations, IT project implementations, and vendor, contract, and asset management functions.
• Oversaw staffing assignments, call routing, and after-hours on-call rotations, providing event metrics and analysis to identify trends and proactively recommended solutions in problem areas.
• Managed subordinate staff through compliance with and support of all company policies, regular performance counseling, mentoring, and facilitating professional growth.
• Provided ongoing training and coaching through call monitoring and analysis of employee call center data.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed Small Business IT Division and set-up home and business networks, successfully analyzing and repairing PC software and hardware issues.
• Installed software, hardware, patches, and OS upgrades, optimizing all IT processes.